A screenshot from the Graham Linehan Facebook page, dated January 26, 2017. "Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move."
Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.
A friend sent me to Ivallan’s Books, Berlin @ivallansbooks.bsky.social “Second-hand and exceptional books”.
Beautiful place to spend some time.
Spotted a @tolkajournal.bsky.social issue #2 high on a shelf.
Robert Macfarlane journeys from Ecuador to Quebec via India in pursuit of an answer to the question: is a river alive? A timely, nay urgent! inquiry.
Violet’s fiction and memoir have been published in Otter Magazine, Pilgrimage, Tinker Street, and the podcast series “The Strange Recital.”
To March or to Marry is her historical novel about suffrage and the women’s club movement. Violet will be reading from her book and answering your questions.
Violet Snow is a fiction writer, memoirist, and freelance journalist. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times “Disunion” blog, Civil War Times, Woodstock Times, American Ancestors, The Record of Bergen County NJ, Jewish Currents, and many other periodicals.
Tonight from 19.30:
Don’t miss our very special guest who is visiting us all the way from upstate New York. VIOLET SNOW will report some unknown details from the history of European and American feminism. We’ll have snacks and drinks too!
His poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Sun, and Reptiles of the Mind. Sparrow writes art reviews for Chronogram. He has run for President of the United States nine times.
Sparrow lives in a trailer in the snowbound hamlet of Phoenicia, New York with his wife Violet Snow. He has published 11 books, including Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies (Monkfish) and The Princeton Diary (Vinal).
SPARROW is one of the most playful poets on Earth:
New Theory
I‘m a
partial
genius.
This poem and many others are included into SPARROW’S new poetry collection “Songs my Father Taught Me“ due to be out at Propeller’s and introduced on this night for our common benefit.
Tonight from 19.30
Propeller Publishers and The GAF proudly present:
HEY-HO!
HERE ARE SPARROW
and VIOLET SNOW
Two absolutely amazing personalities from the core of New York underground are visiting Berlin with a stop at ivallan’s.
One day when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this
by Omar El Akkad
Pet owners! Please share any funny or strange pet stories you know that I can tell my daughter at bedtime. She LOVES cats, but anything will do. (I have run out of stories and veered into making them up, but I don't always have the brain for it.) THANK YOU!
När natten kommer
står jag på trappan och lyssnar,
stjärnorna svärma i trädgården
och jag står i mörkret.
Hör, en stjärna föll med en klang!
Gå icke ut i gräset med bara fötter;
min trädgård är full av skärvor.
Edith Södergran
#dagensdikt #lyrikfredag
Don’t forget to get your Rory Midhani Easter magnets well ahead of Easter.
🥰
made it to Kreuzberg ❤️
Local author and friend of Ivallan’s Jane Flett has recommended a host of excellent books to celebrate the publication day of FREAKSLAW in the US 🎡 Pick up your copy of her own book, a tale of a travelling funfair peopled with misfits and deviant queers
Corpses, Fools and Monsters - The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by @cadenmgardner.bsky.social Caden Gardner and @willowcatelyn.bsky.social Willow Maclay
Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg
#TransDayofVisibility
Glorious Bodies - Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature by @badinfinity2.bsky.social Colby Gordon
A Short History of Trans Misogyny Jules Gill-Peterson
Trans Toronto - An Oral History by Darryl B. Hill
The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
Some Strange Music Draws me in by Griffin Hansbury
The Queens of Sacramento Park by Camila Sosa Villada
Lost Souls and Drawing Blood by Billy Martin
Love the World or Get Killed Trying by Alvina Chamberland
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
Hell Followed With Us by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social Andrew Joseph White
Stag Dance and Detransition Baby by @torreypeters.bsky.social Torrey Peters
Bad Habit by Alana S Portero
One day someone came into ivallan’s and asked “is this the trans bookshop?”. Sadly it is not. We also sell books by cis writers. While we look forward to a future where we can fill a whole shop with thousands of books by trans authors we recommend these gems:
Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"
It's also the day for my favorite meme!
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
SPRING SALE ALERT 🌷🌼🌱Ivallan’s has a 25% off sale on second hand cookbooks and gardening books. Come and visit us Mon - Sat from 12–20h 🌷🌼🌱
My niece (14) texted me late last night saying she's writing a paper on police brutality and asked if I've written anything on the subject that she could cite. Finally, my time to shine.
Through no fault of our own we seem to have grown a Witch section.
This month we have a real treat for you! Writer Margarita Meklina (winner of a ruble, an apple and a bottle of vodka) and composer and pianist Maja Elliott will be performing together at Ivallan’s! March 31st at 19.30. Our space is small so arrive on time to get a spot.
A picture of the book A Million Kites with the words “THIS BOOKSUPPORTS CHILDREN’S RIGHTS” and “Testimonies and Poems from the Children of Gaza.
Poems and stories written by kids living in Gaza. Now available at ivallan’s. All profits (including ours) go to organisations supporting children and their families in Gaza. www.amillionkites.com
Collected and translated by @leilaboukarim.bsky.social
Great piece by JB on the "furious nostalgia" that links the attack on 'gender ideology' to the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. "Who is this ‘migrant’, so dangerous they must be deported... this notion of ‘gender’ that is so threatening to self, family and society?" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
